Where is your project file while you are making edits? Is it on your local C drive or is it on the network on a drive with a letter beginning with E or F or G or other? If it's on the network, that could explain the crashing. Try moving it to your C drive and see if things improve. They should. But if it's already on the C drive, more detective work is needed to determine why it's crashing.

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When the file crashed, I lost the ability to open it. When I try to open it, it gives me a message about a fatal error, tells me to try the backup file and to restart Captivate.

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I apologize – I have been traveling. Yes, it did create backups and I have not been able to open them (ever). What’s more the original file that crashed is unopenable. I see a lock file; some people recommended deleting the lock but doing so did not allow the file to open either.

Thank you for keeping this thread open.

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